Old sayings(idioms) about cats

Idioms are more than important to have a good command of languages. It helps us to improve our conversational skills. By using idioms one can our ideas in a somehow better way. It helps one feel easy with native speakers.

Here are some cat-related idioms. 

A cat nap

Meaning: A brief, light sleep.

Example: Consider a catnap before offing to the USA

A cat burglar

Meaning: It is a connotation for thieves who have the skill to break into a house without being noticed.

Example: He was a professional cat burglar so indictment may take time in court. 

Fat cat

Meaning: Negative description of rich people.

Example: Fat cats in government may not pay heed to poor ones in difficult times.

Cat got your tongue

Meaning: It directs the situation where we want someone to speak but he doesn't.

Example: You are not uttering something has the cat got your tongue?

Curiosity killed the cat

Meaning: Too much curiosity about anything may land you in trouble.

Example: Let sanity prevail, for curiosity kills the cat, and we should act calmly.

Look like something cat dragged in

Meaning: Messy and untidy things can best be described as "look like something cat dragged in"

Example: I should take a shower—before it makes me appear like something the cat dragged in.

Let the cat out of the bag

Meaning: To speak the secret out accidentally.

Example: My brother let the cat out of the bag about my birthday, it is no more secret now.

Like a cat on hot brick

Meaning: Very nervous.

Example: He was like a cat on the hot brick before his exams.

A copycat

Meaning: One who copies others.

Example: She called me a copycat when he found me walking on teacher's heels.

Scaredy cat

Meaning: One who can be easily frightened.

Example: Come on, scaredy cat, it would not harm you.

All cats are grey at night

Meaning: In the dark physical attributes have no worth.

Example: I was unable to see her color because all cats are grey at night.

Cool cat

Meaning: A calm person.

Example: He acted like a cool cat amidst this whole melodrama.

Cat's cradle

Meaning: Complicated game.

Example: This cat's cradle situation may require buy-in from others.

Cat's meow

Meaning: Outstanding

Example: Wearing a cap was considered a cat's meow back in the early 1900s.

Dead cat bounce

Meaning: A temporary recovery in the financial market.

Example: Dead cat bounces will not disturb our investment any longer in the market.

Dog my cats

Meaning: An astounding expression.

Example: Dog my cats! You scared me! By putting things this way.

Fight like cats and dogs

Meaning: Continuation in fights or arguments.

Example: They fought like cats and dogs all the time and have put theirs's children life at peril, for when two elephant fight, it's the grass that suffers.

Hellcat

Meaning: A violently temperamental person.

Example: He is a hellcat type of person in this organization.

To bell a cat

Meaning: This refers to an impossible task.

Example: To make someone bell the cat in this precarious situation will not work anymore, so let's come around collectively.

Catfight

Meaning: Fight between two women.

Example: Catfight was not a strange thing in the office because it was staffed by women only.

Herding cats

Meaning: Used to refer to a difficult or impossible task.

Example: We should compromise before the matter plunges into the herding cats situation.

A cat has nine lives

Meaning: A cat has a greater survival rate.

Example: My friend has been missing for some time but I am sure he will come soon, for the has nine lives.

Cat's paw

Meaning: A person being used by someone as a tool.

Meaning: He has been acting as a cat's paw at the signal of others.